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The Queensland tropical rain forests ecoregion (WWF ID: AA0117) covers a portion of the coast of Queensland in northeastern Australia and belongs to the Australasian realm. The forest contains the world's best living record of the major stages in the evolutionary history of the world's land plants, including most of the world's relict species ...
Biak–Numfoor rain forests: Indonesia: Buru rain forests: Indonesia: Central Range montane rain forests: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea: Halmahera rain forests: Indonesia: Huon Peninsula montane rain forests: Papua New Guinea: Lord Howe Island subtropical forests Australia: Louisiade Archipelago rain forests: Papua New Guinea: New Britain–New ...
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) identified 825 terrestrial ecoregions that cover the Earth's land surface, 40 of which cover Australia and its dependent islands. The WWF ecoregions are classified by biome type ( tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests , temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands , tundra , etc.), and into one ...
On 9 November 2012, the Australian Government also acknowledged the Indigenous heritage of the area as being nationally significant. The Aboriginal Rainforest People of the Wet Tropics of Queensland have lived continuously in the rainforest environment for at least 5000 years, and this is the only place in Australia where Aboriginal people have permanently inhabited a tropical rainforest ...
Category: Tropical Queensland. ... Printable version; In other projects ... Queensland tropical rain forests; W. Wet Tropics of Queensland
Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Tropical rainforests of Australia" ... Queensland tropical rain forests; R. Rainforests and vine thickets
The largest tropical rainforest, the Amazon Rainforest covers much of northwestern Brazil and stretches into other South American countries. The 2,300,000-square-mile wonderland of biodiversity is ...
Tropical rainforest near Tropical North Queensland. At around 1200 square kilometres the Wet Tropics Rainforest is a part of Australia 's largest contiguous area of rainforest. Contains 30% of frog , marsupial and reptile species in Australia, and 65% of Australia's bat and butterfly species. 20% of bird species in the country can be found in ...